As the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to pile on more and more complicated regulations in their pursuit of better corporate governance and more transparent business practices, a new rule, aimed at ensuring that companies can verify that the source of their mineral materials do not originate from any undesirable areas or through questionable practices, is now being enacted. However, as straightforward as the desired result may seem, actually applying a system which acts to track, monitor, and govern such finite information across borders and continents is not quite as simple as the end result itself may seem.

Forex trading has long been the domain of financial institutions and banks that trade and maintain large volumes of currency in their coffers. Today however, online trading platforms and companies have allowed the average person to trade and profit from foreign currency movements. Having an efficient and effective trading technique and regiment can help increase your profits from trading with forex.

500 Startups just wrapped up another series of demo days in Mountain View, Calif. and San Francisco over the last few days, and will be heading to New York to court investors on that coast next week. We heard awesome pitches from startups and met up with some great entrepreneurs during those events, and the other day I had the opportunity to sit down with the man himself, Dave McClure, and pick his brain.

07/18/2012

Trading is one of the most lucrative professions in the world if you know how to do it right. Unfortunately, many new traders forget to practice good common sense and use the tools available to them. Understanding what is there to help and how to keep calm are essentials in making trading a profitable and worthwhile career.

If you set 2012 goals for your business at the start of the year (and I sincerely hope you did), now is the perfect time for a business check-in to see what's on track and what needs to be changed in order to end the year with your growth and revenue goals accomplished. Because we're at the halfway point of the calendar year, there's still time to course-correct if need be, but it's not so late in the game that you need to start panicking if your planned 2012 outcomes aren't yet materializing. Here's a guide...